Child: Momma, momma, why are all these little aunts and uncles not eating ?
Mother: Because they are thinking of beautiful gift.
Child: What gift ?
Mother: Freedom.
Child: Who is going to give them this gift ?
Mother: They themselves.

Child: Moma, moma, why are so many people on the square ?
Mother: Because it is a festival day.
Child: What kind of festival day ?
Mother: A day for lighting fires.
Child: Where are the fires ?
Mother: In everyone's soul.

Child: Momma, Momma, who are sitting in the ambulances ?
Mother: Heros.
Child: Why are heros lying down ?
Mother: So that the children standing behind can see.
Child: Like me ?
Mother: Yes.
Child: See what ?
Mother: A seven-colored bouquet of flowers.

( A poem from Tienanmen Square during hunger strike1989 by Cui Weiping, Beijing Film Academy)

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About Me

Stephanie, S.H. Chin is a multicultural, Multilingual journalist/writer/poet who has traveled and lived in 20 countries. Ms. Chin has worked as editor in chief, editor, journalist, research writer for medias such as NBC, CNBC, NBC-Asia, TVB, CNN, Washington Post, Asian Sources, Singtao (NYC), TVB. She is a member of the HK Journalist Association, Asian American Journalist Association, and the HK Writers Circle. Before moving to Hong Kong she was coordinator of the Poetry Center at the State University of N.Y. at Stony Brook and Co-Director of Worldwide Writers Services in N.Y. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including Westhampton Writers Festival, Utah U., SUNY URECA, SUNYSB, SUNY Albany, Long Island Writers Festival Awards, etc. She was a visiting writer in collaboration with the Fulbright Commission to China (e.g. Sichuan University, Beijing Foreign Language U., Beijing Normal U., Shenyang U., Changsa U, Shenzhen U., Guangzhou Foreign Language U., etc.) Her poetry book is “Finger of a Loving Hand”. She translates her own poems. She studied at HKU & SUNY at Stony Brook (Special thank to Cornelius Eady who inspired me) contact: stephaniechin88@gmail.com